Karbeyaz Kenan, Akkaya Harun, Balci Yasemin
Council of Forensic Medicine, Eskisehir, Turkey.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2013 Aug;20(6):736-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2013.04.007. Epub 2013 May 28.
Murder of women generally occurs as a result of violence by their husbands and relatives. We evaluated the female victims of murder in Eskişehir, located in western Anatolia, where the education level is high in this study. Our aim was to assess and discuss data related to the victims and murderers. A total of 141 women's murder cases were analysed in the study. After a legal process and the results of the autopsies during 2002-2011 in Eskişehir, 715 subjects found to have died as a result of murder were chosen. Cases were evaluated in terms of their age, marital status, education level, relationship to the murderer, reasons for violence, type of action and reasons for death. It was determined that 48.2% (n = 68) of the victims had been killed by the husband and 7.8% (n = 11) by the ex-husband. Murderers generally stated that the reason of murder was the woman's request for divorce or breaking up (n = 40, 28.4%). In compliance with the literature, the women were most commonly killed by their husbands in our study. Enhancing women's status and preventing violence against women will decrease such murders.
女性被谋杀事件通常是由其丈夫和亲属的暴力行为导致的。在本研究中，我们对位于安纳托利亚西部、教育水平较高的埃斯基谢希尔地区的女性谋杀受害者进行了评估。我们的目的是评估和讨论与受害者及凶手相关的数据。本研究共分析了141起女性谋杀案件。在对2002年至2011年期间埃斯基谢希尔的法律程序及尸检结果进行研究后，选取了715名被认定死于谋杀的对象。对这些案件从受害者的年龄、婚姻状况、教育水平、与凶手的关系、暴力原因、行为类型及死亡原因等方面进行了评估。结果显示，48.2%（n = 68）的受害者被丈夫杀害，7.8%（n = 11）被前夫杀害。凶手通常称谋杀原因是女性提出离婚或分手（n = 40，28.4%）。与文献一致，在我们的研究中，女性最常被丈夫杀害。提高女性地位并预防针对女性的暴力行为将减少此类谋杀案的发生。
